TED Books Box Set: The Science Mind: Follow Your Gut, How We'll Live on Mars, and The Laws of Medicine

An exciting boxed set collection of must-have TED Books for any science reader€"from medical professionals to armchair Internet doctors to sci-fi enthusiasts€"an engaging and fresh look at the inner and outer world around us, including Follow Your Gut, How We€ll Live On Mars, and The Laws of Medicine.

Allergies, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused€"and someday cured€"by the microscopic life inside us. How does this groundbreaking science influence your health, mood, and more? In Follow Your Gut pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain why these new findings matter to everyone.

In How We€ll Live on Mars award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek considers what sounds like science fiction as fact: within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. In fact, we€ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity, and he explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen.

The Laws of Medicine is essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of Maladies and one of the world€s premiere cancer researchers, Siddhartha Mukherjee reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine€"and how understanding these principles can empower us all.